Shortly after a breakfast generously supplied with pancakes, Natethe Great got an urgent call from Annie. "I lost a picture," said Annie. "Can you help me find it?" "Of course," said Nate. "I have found lost balloons, books, slippers, chickens. Even a lost goldfish. Now I, Nate the Great, will find a lost picture." "Oh, good," Annie said. Nate, with the cool detachment of a...(展开全部)

The anthropologist Margaret Mead garnered fame and generated controversy in a full life that spanned most of the 20th century. She was a maverick with a strong and sometimes difficult personality, and this biography follows her from childhood years in Pennsylvania, to college days with her pals nicknamed the Ash Can Cats, to tutelage under the preeminent anthropologist, Franz B...(展开全部)

One of the most accomplished, acclaimed, and garlanded writers, Hilary Mantel delivers a brilliant collection of contemporary stories In The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Hilary Mantel’s trademark gifts of penetrating characterization, unsparing eye, and rascally intelligence are once again fully on display. Stories of dislocation and family fracture, of whimsical infidel...(展开全部)

As Britain’s first woman Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher brought about the biggest social and political revolution in the nation’s post-war history. She achieved this largely by the driving force of her personality – a subject of endless speculation among both her friends and her foes. Jonathan Aitken has an insider’s view of Margaret Thatcher’s story. He is well qualified to ...(展开全部)

希拉里•曼特尔出生于英国格罗索普市，于伦敦经济学院和谢菲尔德大学攻读法律。2009年、2012年凭借历史小说《狼厅》和《提堂》两次摘得布克奖。目前，“克伦威尔三部曲”系列的第三部《镜与光》正在创作中。曼特尔是首位两次获得布克奖的女性作家，此前只有J•M•库切和彼得•凯里两次获此殊荣。 1974年，希拉里•曼特尔开始了创作生涯。第一部小说《一个更安全的地方》重现了法国大革命的恢弘场面，获1992年《周日快报》年度小说奖。1995年《爱情实验》获霍桑登奖。2005年《黑暗深处》入围英联邦作家奖和橘子奖短名单。2003年出版了以童年生活为主题的短篇小说集《学说话》。迄今为止，希拉里•曼特尔已经出版十一部长篇小说、两部短篇小说集和一部自传。最新出版的作品是2014年的短篇小说集《暗杀》。2006年希拉里•曼特尔受封大英帝国司令勋章（CBE），2014年受封大...(展开全部)

An exceptional picture book biography of Margaret Wise Brown, the legendary author of Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, and other beloved children's classics, that's as groundbreaking as the icon herself was-from award-winning, bestselling author Mac Barnett and acclaimed illustrator Sarah Jacoby. What is important about Margaret Wise Brown?In forty-two inspired pages, this bi...(展开全部)

作者简介 [加拿大]罗斯玛丽·沙利文ROSEMARY SULLIVAN 加拿大知名作家，2012年沙利文因其对加拿大文化的贡献而获得“加拿大勋章”。著作包括获得加拿大总督学术奖的《影子制造者：格温德琳·麦克尤恩》，还有《欲望迷宫：女人的激情和对浪漫的痴迷》《心灵：伊丽莎白·斯马特传》等。她的新书《对安妮·弗兰克的背叛：一起悬案调查》已在多个国家出版发行。 译者简介 陈小慰福州大学外国语学院教授。兼任中国翻译协会理事兼专家会员、全国翻译专业学位研究生教育指导委员会专家委员会委员、福建省翻译协会副会长等。出版《使女的故事》《上海孤儿》《蓝色虚拟空间》《以赛亚·伯林书信集》，以及《印象福建》《鼓浪屿》《福建见福》（三部均为汉英双语版）等译著共 14 部。已完成各类翻译任务数百万字。2024年荣获中国翻译协会“资深翻译家”荣誉称号。

作者简介 [加拿大]罗斯玛丽·沙利文ROSEMARY SULLIVAN 加拿大知名作家，2012年沙利文因其对加拿大文化的贡献而获得“加拿大勋章”。著作包括获得加拿大总督学术奖的《影子制造者：格温德琳·麦克尤恩》，还有《欲望迷宫：女人的激情和对浪漫的痴迷》《心灵：伊丽莎白·斯马特传》等。她的新书《对安妮·弗兰克的背叛：一起悬案调查》已在多个国家出版发行。 译者简介 陈小慰福州大学外国语学院教授。兼任中国翻译协会理事兼专家会员、全国翻译专业学位研究生教育指导委员会专家委员会委员、福建省翻译协会副会长等。出版《使女的故事》《上海孤儿》《蓝色虚拟空间》《以赛亚·伯林书信集》，以及《印象福建》《鼓浪屿》《福建见福》（三部均为汉英双语版）等译著共 14 部。已完成各类翻译任务数百万字。2024年荣获中国翻译协会“资深翻译家”荣誉称号。

Margaret Mead Made Me Gay is the intellectual autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. Chronicling the development of her ideas from the excitement of early feminism in the 1960s to friendly critiques of queer theory in the 1990s, this collection covers a range of topics such as why we need more precise sexual vocabularies, w...(展开全部)